General
The term for how much salt is in a body of water.
What is salinity?
In 1 direction.
How do rivers and streams flow?
Varies depending on the season.
What is the temperature of lakes?
The narrow band where the ocean meets the land.
What is the intertidal zone?
Only transitional ecosystem that has trees. Shrek's home.
What is a swamp?
97.5% of Earth's water.
What is salt water?
Rapid water, little sediment, few living organisms.
What is steep slope?
Deepest zone of a lake or pond. Minimal light, lower oxygen, cold, limited species.
What is the profundal zone?
Found along the coasts in warm, shallow water, they create a natural barrier to protect from erosion.
What are coral reefs?
Ecosystem formed when freshwater and saltwater merge.
What are estuaries?
Frozen freshwater.
What are glaciers?
Slow moving water, more sediment, more living organisms.
What is level slope?
Open water, dominated by plankton and many species of fish.
What is the limnetic zone?
Top two ocean zones where sunlight can reach. Approximately 200m deep.
What is the photic zone?
Ecosystem formed when water saturates the land and can support aquatic plants.
What are wetlands?
Material deposited by water, wind, or glaciers.
What is sediment?
Determined by slope.
What is speed and direction of water?
Shallow, nearest the shore, many producers and consumers.
What is the littoral zone?
Deepest, coldest ocean zone.
What is the abyssal zone?
Wetlands dominated by herbaceous plants (plants with soft stems)
What is a marsh?
Free floating, photosynthetic autotrophs.
What are plankton?
Terms for where a river or stream starts and ends.
What is headwater (start) and mouth (end).
This is why a salt lake is formed.
What happens when water flows into, but not out of a lake (water only evaporates)?
Ocean floor, consists of sand, silt, and dead organisms.
What is the benthic zone?
Dominated by mosses, characterized by moist, decaying plants.
What is a bog?